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Stay Away
03:19
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Looking in your past life
Ain't a way to wake and pass the time
And when it ends, I'll begin.
And telling truth, "no, not today"
Keeps all your future far away,
Where you go, there you've been.
So every time they say, we don't want you,
Know it's not your fault,
They don't get you.
It's not enough to say, we don't want anyone
Who wants to love at all,
So stay away.
So you got the time right,
Chance alone tells truth and never lies,
Out the blue? Then it’s true.
Be what you may be you ain’t just made
To be made happy all the time,
Light to dark, dark to light.
(Chorus)
Making out of memories something
Prettier than perfect that I’ve left behind
And stripped aside.
Making all my moments out of
All the perfect moments that I'm
Dying to find, all the time today.
(Chorus)
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2. |
Nurse or Nightmare
02:45
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I need a doctor, get me a doctor,
I need a refill, just this one time,
And then I'll be off it, best in the office,
Shit if I lost it, calling back now...
Nurse or a nightmare
She's my barstool queen of hell,
Who keeps me feeling well
And well fed-up under all her spells, 'till she's gone away.
Gone out the front door, straight out the front door,
gotta get out now, all was fine when,
When in through the window, how did the wind know,
I let the sin go? Cuddled up now...
(Chorus)
I don't even know if I can reap what she's sowing
But I want something beautiful
To knock me down and turn me all around.
All her lunacy that wakes making love to me
And fakes something pretty
Call her off cause she's the reddest cross around.
On the way home now, I'm building my Rome now(!)
I'm killing the coma, no more doctors.
I don’t need the needles, additional refills,
Medicinal females ain't so good now...
(Chorus)
That tell me...
Nurse or a nightmare
You're my barstool queen on high.
You keep me warm at night
And I'm fed up 'till the morning light
Drives the dream away.
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3. |
Never Nobody
03:37
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If you need a friend, come on I’ll let you in
Though you lost that love, maybe this one wins.
You’re never nobody to me,
Every unknown girl’s an untold story
Please, make yourself warm and comfortable
Even the best, have their troubles
Anytime you need it, I'll give you an ear
Slip those shoes off, fireside dry your tears.
If you need love, then I got you, cause you get me
You’re never nobody
Sometimes the truth just need be used or it gets dusty,
Take it from me, out on our own we all get lonely.
If you need my touch to come and help you up
And out of empty bars, and half-filled cups
I’m there when the sunshines or under the moon,
You got one but everyone needs two my friend.
Tell about the man in your life,
How he hit you and how you cried no more
Came to my open door I said,
you’re stronger than you know my friend...
(Chorus)
Even if you wander wide, I’ll meet you there eye to eye.
If you knew what you do to pull me through, through and through...
(Chorus)
Out on our own we all get lonely.
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4. |
Woodsmoke
04:12
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Fall down sweet leaves, bring me my memories
Of days when these days weren’t the same.
Smell woodsmoke and grease, big boots on smaller feet
When Please Please Me was the rage.
All that time we grew, couldn’t think it through it was all brand new. Climbing in the sunlight, growing up with eyes bright,
Being all and all you were was you.
Smiling, young, and cavalier indeed,
Now we use those shining eyes to see.
Cast down the stream, those fish are your dreams,
Knowing what we’ve been is how we learn to be.
Then we moved on, new songs and deeper wrongs,
Look Mama that’s just woodsmoke on me.
And then faster still, small boots on bigger hills,
And climbing high we’d see it all so easy.
All those times we grew...
(Chorus)
Memories come back to me,
Teach me and let me see, you’re needed
Then once you’ve sown your seed,
Leave me and I’ll move onwards freely.
All those times we grew...
(Chorus)
Knowing what we’ve been is how we learn to be
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5. |
Get It Out
03:27
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I just got to get it out,
Weave a little word and sing that sound.
Come, a quarter jukebox just needs a token
It’s not broken down and all played out.
So when you get a song, sing it loud,
Let the music play and play right now.
Looking for the right line might take a lifetime
Just move on and get that feeling out.
You always told me, keep your head up
Press with the pen and you’ll feel better.
But singing ain’t the way it used to be,
I got to press a little harder now and get over me.
Now, blank pages fill your room,
You're ready to explode, but got no fuse.
Talking to a torn-up page in a blind-drunk rage
Those evenings when you stumble home.
You said it took a lost love to get you found,
(How’s that working out?)
Silence to make you loud.
And then you start to feel high, thinking of old lines
All those times your ink was solid gold.
If you never hear my voice no more
Or if you hear me singing songs that you’ve heard before,
Someday, sick of the silent way I’ll try and try again to say.
(Chorus)
I gotta get it out loud
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6. |
Every Everyone
03:36
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Mother mother told you, that the world is wide
And sorrow can be happy, happiness can cry.
See life, now I remember, is simple and complex,
And living implies you’re up for the ride
To learn and to never forget,
There’s someone for every everyone
And it could be any anyone.
There are so many ways to be beautiful
And differences make our world wonderful
You are you, I’m me.
You can have sometimes lovers always,
But always lovers once.
And life is always happening,
Rain or shine, dew or frost.
There’ll be love made under starlight,
And that heartbreak in your bed.
But better you’ll be for getting to see
That mother was right when she said,
(Chorus)
We are more than eyes meet
We are all in one and one in all,
And that’s all we’ll be.
Remember mother told you that the world is round,
And sorrow picks you up and sometimes smiling brings you down
See life, now I remember, is simple and complex,
And living implies you’re up for the ride
To take to pass every test.
(Chorus)
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7. |
In Your Pocket
03:37
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Give it a chance and take that hand for a dance
You don’t need money in your pocket,
You’re riddled rich with some romance
And not alone.
Pick up the phone and find you ain’t on your own
You don’t need money in your pocket,
You’re riddled rich with some hormones
And not alone...
But it ain’t oh so easy to do what you can say,
Walk that walk - sometimes walk away.
So simple to shake and feel afraid,
But one word and you’re in those arms and thinking...
I can see why, we have a hard time feeling fine
It gets too complicated,
I don’t know why.
So now and again, I take my heart for a spin,
And then I feel alright.
The richer the risk, you know the sweeter the kiss
You don’t need money in your pocket,
When you don’t care what the cost is
And no, you’re not alone.
But it ain’t oh so easy to do what you can say,
Walk that walk and the words just walk away
So simple to shake and feel afraid,
But one word and you’re making love and thinking
(Chorus)
But it ain’t oh so easy to do what you can say,
Walk that walk ‘till the love made makes you ache
So simple to shake and feel afraid,
But one word now you’re in those arms and thinking...
(Chorus)
I can see why,
We have hard time feeling fine
We overcomplicate it,
I don’t know why.
So now and again, I take my heart for a spin
And then it feel alright.
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8. |
Mischief Made
03:50
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I know it’s hard to say what need be said,
And in the moment it’s oh so easy to forget.
As if the words we need were made of smoke,
And every chance with the one who you love most Is a chance to choke.
All we want and all we need
Is another chance to say things clearly.
All we want and all we need
Is another moment to hold dearly.
Then I’d keep my hands off you,
I’d keep both my hands off you my love.
It’s hard to say enough’s enough When it’s too much.
If you are who you say you are
Then it’s been said,
That love like mischief made is
Far better left unsaid.
So love is made of the space
(the space we need...) we leave between.
Still you’re near when I sing
I Fall In Love Too Easily.
I know it’s never tried and true,
All this me and you
We did what people do.
Falling down how we all fall down
And break before we bloom
And so it’s said that
All we want and all we need...
(Chorus)
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9. |
Dirty Face
03:55
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You got a dirty face and you don’t even care
Dirt on your face ain't bad just don’t leave it there.
You play today safe and know tomorrow waits
You got a sunshine smile on your dirty face.
Check your choices and choose
Your happiness is waiting for you
Mind the time and in time you’ll be just fine
If you can keep an open mind
but...
You got a dirty face and you don’t even care
Dirt on your face ain't bad unless you leave it there.
You play today safe and know tomorrow waits
For every sunshine smile there’s a dirty face.
Did you ever wonder why, if you want a life on high
Why you’d wanna live so low?
In words it’s vertigo.
When you wanna fall way down
And you want the world to see
And the ground it calls out
“Come now be with me.”
Check your choices and choose...
(Chorus)
You stain a sunshine smile with your dirty face.
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10. |
Lit
04:34
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Come close brief and bright starlit love in my life
I wanna hold you till my hands hurt (all of the night)
When I wake if I can taste your sweat on my sleeve
I need a fix and you’re the fix I need.
If I ever want a little bit more of,
Then I really need a little bit less than.
I don’t wanna go and act like I did way back then.
If I ever want a little bit more of,
Then I really need a little bit less than.
I could never call you my friend.
You shot me up until my fever was high and I said,
I’ll keep from falling ‘till the day I die and I want,
I want to wake up with you lit like a firefly.
It ain’t about what I can own this time...
And only you can call you mine.
So close, strong and scared, held up holding your hair
One pretty polaroid, sleeping in the shirt that I wear.
When I wake oh I can taste your skin on my sleeve,
I found a fix and you’re my fix indeed.
(Chorus)
Only you can call and call you mine
If I ever want a little bit more of...
(Chorus)
And only you can call you mine
Only you can call and call you mine It’s just not the time
For you to call and call you mine.
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11. |
All In Good Time
03:03
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This time I’ll get it right and write it all down,
The world on the page, the world figured out.
Unrest undressed into sweet peace of mind,
All in good time, all in good time.
I’ve got my future and I’ve got my past,
One hits the break and one hits the gas
Well-read and red-blooded boy don’t despair,
You’re on your way.You’ll get there.
There’s a time up high, here’s a day down low.
There’s a time for all things, anything that grows.
All in good time comes, so the folks they sing,
There’s a time for anything that time can bring.
Love can make fools, but wise men make love
One’s going down on who one passes up.
Though we are made men we all fall apart,
Lovers and children, artists and works of art.
Yet apart, we’re one upon a stage,
In moonlight we’re captured, sunlight we’re saved.
Health into hardship then sorrow into strength
All this is worth our thanks.
(Chorus)
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